Palm trees are hardly alien to this hemisphere. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who blasted his way through Aztec Mexico, complained about them in a 1525 letter to his master, the Holy ...

The palm tree has been cultivated by humans for almost 5,000 years. This began in the Middle East with the Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) but soon expanded to other regions with other palm species.

Another palm tree that can grow in Palmdale is the Mediterranean fan palm (Chamaerops humilis), enduring temperatures down to 0 degrees. This is the only palm species native to Europe.

Botanists have discovered a new species of giant self-destructing palm on the island of Madagascar. The tree, described as the nation's largest palm species, is unlike anything else ever found on the ...

This arrangement has helped the palm tree flourish in warm and windy tropical areas the world over. There are 188 known genera of palm, and 2,585 species, said Judy Jernstedt, ...

Palm trees come in more than 2,500 species, mostly occurring in the vast warm regions between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. They love a good tempest.

This commercial date palm species, Phoenix dactylifera, at some point gave rise to feral offshoots that sustain themselves on sandy, dry Cape Verde, researchers report February 11 in Plants ...

The two palm diseases are transmitted by species of planthoppers, ... A dead palm tree stands on the neutral ground on Canal Blvd. in New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 18, 2023.